Modernism really started with people getting infatuated with the idea of "it's the twentieth century, is this suitable for the twentieth century."… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy.… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
John Galt is Prometheus who changed his mind. After centuries of being torn by vultures in payment for having brought to men… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To solve the new century's mounting social and environmental problems, people of color activist and white activists need to be able to… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had. — Rita Levi-Montalcini Copy Share Image
With knowledge now the key raw material for creating all economic wealth, the new power struggles will reach deep into our minds… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
Nearly a half-century on from feminism, simply being a woman artist is still a revolutionary act. And getting one's work shown continues… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
New knowledge has led to the recognition in the theory of evolution of more than a hypothesis. It is indeed remarkable that… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course--the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
No one can wipe away the injustices of centuries in only eight years. — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Copy Share Image
Some studies suggest that the Arctic Ocean may be ice-free by the end of the century. — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
A deadly sins addendum is long overdue. Life has changed since Pope Gregory the Great scribbled his initial list in the sixth… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
For centuries the word 'nature' has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that… — Eva Figes Copy Share Image
The Vatican has always had a core of diplomats for centuries. It has ambassadors in 180 countries and always played a kind… — Sylvia Poggioli Copy Share Image
I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I dont believe anymore… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, 19th-century scientists were just as ready to jump to the conclusion that any guess about nature was an obvious fact, as… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Over a wide field of our economy it is still the better course to rely on the nineteenth century's "hidden hand" than… — John James Cowperthwaite Copy Share Image
I take drugs just because in the 20th century in a technological age living in the city there are certain drugs you… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
In the twentieth century the Reformed tradition was developed in several ways including additional confessions (Barmen, the Belhar Confession, the 1967 Confession… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
20th century poetry is a piñata. Images break from the earth when the poet strikes it. — Diane Glancy Copy Share Image
There has been an Irish lobby that has impacted U.S. foreign policy for a century and a half, and at times made… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Over the centuries, and even today, the Bible and Christian theology have helped justify the Crusades, slavery, violence against gays, and the… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
The golden age of equal rights in Spain was a myth, and belief in it was a result, more than a cause,… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
[we have]taming of an ancient disease [malaria] that over the centuries has killed untold millions of people. — Margaret Chan Copy Share Image
I believe the world benefits from American leadership. I believe this next century should be an American century. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Jewish, Christian, and Muslim theologians have insisted for centuries that God does not exist and that there is 'nothing' out there; in… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
... while our men seem thoroughly abreast of the times on almost every other subject, when they strike the woman question they… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
No one who has lived through the second half of the 20th century could possibly be blind to the enormous impact of… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
t century, hundreds of millions - and eventually billions - of human beings will transform their buildings into power plants to harvest… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
All Cabinet Ministers and other senior ministers are still sworn in as Privy Counsellors for life. The oath (which dates back to… — Clive Ponting Copy Share Image
There was always resistance and there was always a counter-narrative, but we were told all through the early twentieth century that black… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
From the moment of birth, when the Stone-Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
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